The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox game, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat!
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Changes for this version (Show More)
- Version 79.1 beta
- Prevent changing of Window size if the screen is too small.
- Fix bug that caused pressure to leak from TTAN when pausing/framestepping
- Fix crash when opening display options
- Version 79.0 beta
- Fix a problem with GPMP that caused gravity to depend on air pressure.
- Fix TNT sometimes not exploding if multiple TNT particles are in the same place.
- Fix PUMP not generating negative pressure if it is next to a wall.
- Better colour options preview.
- New element titanium (in the solids menu), which completely blocks air and absorbs some neutrons
- Version 78.1
- Fix bug that created "weaponised explosive GEL"
- Changes to License (GPLv2 to GPLv3)
- Fix bug that caused thumbnail caching to not work
- Remove unused debug output of thumbnail cache
- New save format: OPS, allows saving of almost all data within the simulation
- Plasma can now travel through portals and PIPE
- Changes to GEL, will no longer absorb water when saturated
- Fix bugs when moving signs
- Fix file opening on Mac OS X
- Line snapping in the decoration editor
- Changes to SING to prevent it from exploding through walls
- Code cleanup for mouse scaling
- Version 75.0 beta
- Version 74.2
- Fix bug where Ice won't melt
- Improve appearance of BCOL
- Allow Walls to be used to protect PIPE
- Version 74.1
- Icon for Force Elements
- Allow DEST to be used with clone elements
- Version 74.0
- Fixes for Triangle brush and minor electron bug
- Debug lines for WiFi, Portal and Soap
- Fusion for H2 at high temperature+high pressure
- Ambient heat and Newtonian Gravity in Quick Options menu.
- Smudge tool
- Speed improvements for particle drawing
- FRAY (Move other particles) and Force elements section
- Version 73.1
- Enable use of caching server to improve performance or thumbnail retrieval.
- Fix issue where sign tool creates invalid walls
- Fix issue where LRBD/RBDM isn't ignited by WATR
- Fix crash on rotating a stamp with walls as wide as the window
- Fix Invisible photons
- Fix bug where WARP+SING destroys DMND
- Fix issue where Lua can't create photons in glass
- Version 65.4
- "Sand" effect for drawing powders, activate with "N"
- Elements from Maksprog's mod
- LIGH - Lightning
- DEST - Variation of BOMB
- TESC - Tesla coil, creates lightning
- EMP - Destroys electronic components
- Fix bug with infinite temperature
- Fix beta enrolling
- Add a new mode to filter, subtract (tmp of 3)
- Version 64.3
- Decoration editor tool menu, with lighten and darken tools.
- Can type in decoration editor color boxes for specific RGB values, hit enter after typing a number to confirm
- SOAP removes decoration, opposite of BIZR.
- Water equalization, turn on in options menu, or tpt.watertest() .
- BUBW changes to be more realistic, can explode.
- New element CAUS, an acid like gas, created from ACID+WTRV.
- Can see selected elements from Lua, tpt.selectedl or tpt.selectedr .
- Saved settings are in JSON format, replaces powder.def
- Can opt in to receive beta updates.
- QRTZ scatters photons.
- New Tool, PROP, edit properties easily without console.
- FILT has modes with .tmp (0,1,2). 0 is convert (old method). 1 will filter (only close color can pass). 2 is add color.
- 'Sign out' button in the login menu, instead of submitting blank data.
- Version 60.1
- Tools menu which holds AIR, HEAT, COOL, ect.
- tpt.getscript() to download scripts from the official script repository.
- tpt.setwindowsize(scale, fullscreen) to change the scale (1 or 2) and fullscreen (0 or 1).
- Selection for stamp/copy is now by pixel.
- Water puts out fire better.
- New Elements CO2, BUBW, DRIC, STOR, PVOD, CONV.
- Zoom toggle alt-z.
- BIZR acts as a dye.
- Many other various fixes and improvements.
- Version 61.0
- Added energy only wall (Photons, Neutrons, etc) as replacement for Gas only wall fix
- STOR will change appearance when it holds a particle.
- Version 55.5 beta
- Speed improvements
- Fix crash on Windows
- Version 52.0
- New Element: DLAY
- Lua API additions
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Version 53.0 beta
- New Element: WIRE
- Experimental Gravity simulation
- Version 51.0
- New Elements: GPMP, PBCN, CLST
- Improvements to "favouring"
- Better liquid behaviour in radial gravity mode.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Version 50.5
- Lua scripting
- Local saving (Hold CTRL when using open/save buttons)
- Higher quality thumbnails and previews
- In game conversation notifications
- Simulation options dialog
- Realistic gravity (optional)
- Ambient heat (air heat)
- Improvements to favourites browsing
- Speed improvements
- Version 49.1 beta
- Version 49.0 beta
- Speed improvements for liquids and other elements
- Higher quality thumbnails and previews
- In game conversation notifications
- Simulation options dialog
- Realistic gravity (optional)
- Version 47.4
- Fix crash when using rotate tool on Windows
- Photons and neutrons may pass through portals
- Version 47.0
- Enhanced visual effects for Portals
- Glow now has more stimuli (Green: Pressure, Blue: Movement, Red: Heat)
- Python console (Unavailable in current beta)
- Fixed issue where you appear to be logged in but aren't.
- Changes to Quartz (Grows like crystal when exposed to salt water)
- Singularity explodes upon death
- Save ID shown after saving and on Open Dialog
- Rearrangement of some elements (Photons in Radioactive, Thunder in Explosive, etc)
- Version 46.3
- Major game engine and performance improvements.
- New GOL elements.
- More secure login system
- Version 45.2
- Important! Fix for Auto-update in Linux.
- Version 45.1
- Small bugfix for Lava and Portals.
- Fix crash when 2 of the same stickman are somehow placed.
- Version 45.0
- Fix bug where description would persist after a reset
- ARAY now passes through INWR without interracting.
- INST has been fixed and placed in the Electronics menu
- Photons turn into neutrons when passing through INVS
- Other small bug fixes.
- Version 44.7
- Fix login and dialoq text box issues.
- Small bugfixes to some elements.
- Additional 'debug' information.
- Increase WIFI channels
- Add missing icons for menus and display modes.
- Version 44.6
- Fix for brush issues when using small brushes.
- Pause state saving modifications.
- Version 44.5
- Fix corruption issues with FAN wall.
- Version 44.4
- Many new elements from cracker64s mod.
- Pause state is saved.
- Particle properties are saved more accurately.
- Improved search and save viewing, added descriptions and comments.
- Version 42.3
- Changed internal temperature scale to kelvin.
- Fixed physics bug with certain powders.
- Fixed bug when loading saves with stickman in.
- Added save history, the ability to view previous versions of saves.
- Version 42.0
- New Elements: Brick, Glow, Diesel, many others.
- Source code seperation
- Lots of other stuff that I can't remember.
- Version 41.3
- Fixes bug where Insulation would burst into flames randomly
- Moves fancy new effects into a separate colour mode.
- Version 39.0
- New element: Liquid Crystal
- New element: Battery
- New element: Noble Gas
- Copy, cut and paste
- Version 38.0
- New element: Nitrogen Ice
- New element: Electrode (Allows currents to jump)
- Adds a lock icon to private saves.
- Binds the '[' and ']' keys to decrease/increase the cursor size for those without scroll wheels.
- Fixes wall menu issue where walls would be selected by accident.
- Version 37.0
- New element: Plasma
- New element: Thunder/Lighting
- New wall: Allows only gas
- Fixes HUD bug.
- Version 36.3
- Version 36.2
- Fixes bug where rating would appear as Zero in search.
- Version 36.1
- Feature: Particle sampling with middle click
- Feature: Download from website, for information, see the "Announcement" forum section.
- Version 36.0
- Changes to the menu
- New elements for electronics
- New voting system
- Added functions for moderating
- Version 35.0
- Added elements: White Hole, Black Hole, Rubidium and Liquid Rubidium
- Fixed the OSX version
- Some other bug fixes that I forgot.
- Version 34.0
- Fixed certain graphical glitches
- Changed menu categories
- Increased menu hover size
- Version 33.2
- Photons can now ignite flammable materials.
- Distilled water will turn into water on contact with water.
- Fixes burning broken metal
- Version 34.0 (Beta 6)
- New element menu layout
- New element: Liquid Nitrogen
- Version 34.0 (Beta 5)
- Improvements to stamp browser
- Added Glyphs for Blob and Heat view
- Fixed bug that caused a crash on Windows systems when using the wall tool in the window edges.(Fixed more than last time)
- Decreased/Increased Min/Max Temperatures.
- Version 34.0 (Beta 4)
- Cool, heat and Air no longer crash upon flood fill
- Fixed bug that caused a crash on Windows systems when using the wall tool in the window edges.
- Stamp browser now allows multiple pages.
- Improved the zoom features, allowing inspection.
- Modification to temperature simulation, pressure is now taken into account with transitions from liquid to gas and vice-versa
- Fixed bug where Salt-water would not leave salt upon evaporation
- Version 34.0 (Beta 3)
- Bug fixes for uranium
- Fixed bug where extremely hot objects would show as black
- Fixed but where stamps would not be loaded
- Version 34.0 (Beta 2)
- Bug fixes
- Legacy Mode state is now saved and loaded
- Fix "Cool" and "Heat" when drawing on walls.
- Air now works.
- Version 34.0 (Beta 1)
- Bug fixes
- Legacy Mode (Older saves will load with legacy mode, preserving the functionality of the older powder toy)
- Heat and Cool elements. (Air is broken until next beta.)
- Version 34.0 (Beta)
- Heat Simulation (With free bugs and glitches)
- New Element: Uranium, heats up when pressurised.
- New button, AIR, provides instant air, the Alt+Click and Middle Click can be used as a shortcut
- Version 33.1
- Masses of bug fixes
- Broken metal and breakable metal fixed (conduction)
- Liquid collisions fixed.
- Version 33.0
- Added Photons, particles similar to neutrons that travel in straight lines
- Added destructable metal
- Fixed a glitch with diamond that would make it appear invisible to air pressure.
- Version 32.0
- Added Diamond (Thanks to ief014)
- Fixed packaging errors for the Windows release
- Version 31.0
- Plutonium more powerful
- Changes to the handling of lava (Now solidifies into the same material it was melted from).
- New element: Salt.
- New element: Salt water
- Version 30.0
- Added the ability to change the zoom strength
- Increased the maximum pen size.
- New element: Concrete, tougher than stone, stackable.
- New element: Distilled water, similar to water, but doesn't conduct electricity
- Changed menu layout, walls at the bottom, elements at the top (to allow for more future elements)
- 32bit colour for Macintosh versions.
- Version 28.4
- Fixes crash when loading a save with acid.
- Another tiny change for acid colour in blob mode
- Version 28.3
- Fixes acid colour in blob mode
- Fixes blob mode colour on Macintosh and 16bit colour systems
- Version 28.2
- Quit confirmation dialogue when using the escape key
- Walls are "blobbed" in Blob view
- Version 28.1
- Steam rises
- Acid drastically changed, now dilutes itself when dissolving other particles
- Version 28.0
- "Yellow wall" bug fix, doesn't absorb particles when placed above another wall type.
- New wall type added: E-Hole, absorbs particles when unpowered, released them when powered.